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Shirley Barker. The Last Gentleman
The Last Gentleman
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“Oh good sportsmen live happily, happily forever, Following the stag and the roe—”
“And when they die, they all go to Paradise!”
“And when they die, they all go to Paradise!”
“And when we die, may we all go to Paradise!”
“Oh leave poor Simon’s beard alone, ’Tis no disgrace to Simon’s face—”
Some men to pleasure, some to business take, But every woman is at heart a rake
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Shirley Barker
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Yes, letters,” he agreed, “but letters do not always tell you what you want to know. They tell me that my brothers’ wives are all with child, that the roof of the west wing leaks and my favorite mare’s gone lame. But they do not tell me that the daffodils bloomed this year just as they used to do, and whether the gulls still nest on Flamborough Head. Does that sound like madness in me?”
“No,” she told him. “It sounds as if you would want to know about the same things I would want to know about. People must die and be born, I know, and roofs fall in, but we want to be reassured about the things that do not change.”
